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Re: Adobe Flash



On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote:

> On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >>> for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't
> >>> subscribe the debian-user list.)
> >>>
> >>> To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install
> >>> youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl
> >>
> >> Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel,
> >
> > That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed
> > every new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a
> > bunch of them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04  on it
> > but there is nothing for it to download.  So quit advertising that
> > it works and just let flash die the horrible security hole ridden
> > death it deserves.
> >
> >> or watch with
> >> Google Chrome.
> >
> > Can you stop it from calling home?  Tcpdump and wireshark are quite
> > educational tools.
> >
> >> I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those
> >> do.  I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most
> >> days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if
> >> there has been a new newsflash on an important story.  Think of the
> >> disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time!
> >
> > So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click
> > thru 2 or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which
> > it promises to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet.
>
> ........
>
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> The package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash works very well for
> me on iceweasel.
>
> Tom Ashley

And what repo has that?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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